Contact: Tammy Lane • First Posted: Monday, July 12, 2010

The National Merit Scholarship Corp. has announced nearly 2,000 additional winners of awards financed by colleges and universities, including 11 from Fayette County Public Schools.

From Henry Clay High School:

• Walter Bell, music, George Washington University
• Emily Estus, political science, Kenyon College
• Michael Fryar, foreign service/international development, Centre College
• Ethan Golding, undecided, Northwestern University
• Andrew Riley, music performance, Indiana University Bloomington

From Paul Laurence Dunbar High School:

• Josiah Hanna, computer science, University of Kentucky
• Matthew Hensley, law, Vanderbilt University
• Onda Kim, medicine/health care, Emory University
• Nicole Schladt, journalism/law, University of Kentucky
• Ailin Shen, consulting/management, University of Chicago
• Jingkun Wang, biology, Washington University in St. Louis

Officials at each sponsor college selected their winners from among finalists in the National Merit Scholarship Program who will attend their school this fall. These awards provide between $500 and $2,000 annually for up to four years of undergraduate study. This year, 201 colleges and universities are sponsoring about 4,900 merit scholarships.

This final group of winners brings the total of 2010 National Merit Scholars to roughly 8,400 students, who will receive about $36 million in aid. In the spring, the organization released the winners of corporate-sponsored awards, $2,500 scholarships and the first group of college-sponsored merit scholarships. FCPS had a total of 31 award recipients.

For more information about the program, visit www.nationalmerit.org/.